Mar 25, 2013
Healthcare in South Africa has always been a contentious issue. This contention is mainly due to the fact that the topic is so varied and covers issues from the most basic primary healthcare offered by the state, to highly specialised, hi-tech health services...
Mar 18, 2013
People can learn a surprising amount from animals, as Chester Liu, director of product sales enablement at QlikView, discovered recently on his first safari trip in South Africa. Consider for example the collaborative relationship between the zebra and giraffe, and...
Mar 18, 2013
Social media, expansion of the Internet and the ubiquity of computers has allowed companies to capture vast sets of data about their customers. Managed correctly, this data can allow companies to refine their marketing efforts and offer a greater degree of...
Mar 14, 2013
A majority of employees have yet to use BI in organisations that have implemented it and the adoption rate or percentage of people who use it has changed little since as far back as 2007. In the past two years BI vendors have also gone to some trouble to increase...
Mar 11, 2013
According to the IDC, the big data market, globally, is expected to grow at a rate of almost 32% until it reaches $23,8-billion in 2016. Identified by Gartner as a trend, there is no doubt that big data is a growing influence in Africa’s ICT landscape and widely...
